# List of Sigma Phi members

Sigma Phi is an American collegiate secret society. It was founded in 1827 at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Following is a list of some of its notable members.

## Arts and architecture

| Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
| Bradford Perkins | Wisconsin, Cornell | Architect and founder of Perkins Eastman Architects | |
| Philip Will Jr. | Cornell | Architect, co-founder of architecture firm Perkins+Will, and president of the American Institute of Architects | |

## Business

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| J. Patrick Doyle | Michigan | former CEO of Domino's Pizza |
| Seth Flowerman | Cornell | Entrepreneur, CEO of PLT Health Solutions |
| Leonard Jerome | Union | American financier and the maternal grandfather of Winston Churchill |
| Charles F. Knight | Cornell | chairman and CEO of Emerson Electric |
| James M. Loree | Union | CEO of Stanley Black & Decker |
| Charlie Munger | Michigan | former vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway |
| Peter Busch Orthwein | Cornell | founder and chairman of Thor Industries |
| Howard Potter | Union | American industrialist, investment banker, diplomat and philanthropist, and a partner in Brown Bros. & Co. |
| Ratan Tata | Cornell | businessman and former chairman of Tata Sons |
| Jay Walker | Cornell | founder of Priceline |

## Education

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Israel Ward Andrews | Williams | professor and president of Marietta College |
| Mortimer Elwyn Cooley | | professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, mechanical and consulting engineer |
| Stephen Gilman | Princeton | Hispanist, Guggenheim Fellow, professor at Harvard University, Ohio State University, and Princeton University |
| George Wheeler Hinman | Hamilton | president of Marietta College, publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean |
| Oren Root II | Hamilton | professor of mathematics and natural sciences at Hamilton College; professor of English at the University of Missouri; Presbyterian minister |
| William A. Shanklin | Hamilton | president of Upper Iowa University and Wesleyan University, Methodist minister |
| M. Woolsey Stryker | Hamilton | president of Hamilton College and Presbyterian minister |
| Anson J. Upson | Hamilton | Chancellor of the Regents of the University of the State of New York |
| Andrew Dickson White | Hobart | co-founder and first president of Cornell University, U.S. Ambassador to Germany |
| William Dwight Whitney | Williams | linguist, professor at Yale University, and first president of the American Philological Association |

## Entertainment

| Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
| Nat Faxon | Hamilton | Actor, comedian, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter | |
| Arthur C. Nielsen | Wisconsin | creator of Nielsen ratings | |

## Government and public service

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| John Bigelow | Union | Minister to France and U.S. Secretary of State |
| Daniel Butterfield | Union | Assistant Treasurer of the United States, composer of Taps bugle call, Civil War general |
| Charles J. Folger | Hobart | United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| John Jay Knox Jr. | Hamilton | Comptroller of the Currency of the United States |
| Elihu Root | Hamilton | U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and U.S. Senator |
| Andrew Dickson White | Hobart | U.S. Ambassador to Germany, co-founder and first president of Cornell University |

## Law

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Douglass Boardman | Hobart | jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York, Dean of Cornell Law School |
| George F. Comstock | Union | Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals |
| John A. Denison | Vermont | judge of the Supreme Court of Colorado and mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts |
| Douglass Boardman | Hobart | Dean of Cornell Law School, American jurist, lawyer, served on the Supreme Court of New York |
| Thomas Nelson | Williams | Chief Justice of Oregon Territory |
| Joseph Mullin | Union | justice of the New York Supreme Court, United States Congressman from New York |
| James Noxon | Hamilton, Union | Member New York Supreme Court and New York politician |
| Abram B. Olin | Williams | Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and United States Congressman |
| Enoch Rosekrans | Union | judge of the New York Court of Appeals |
| Earl Warren | California | Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California |

## Literature and journalism

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| George Wheeler Hinman | Hamilton | publisher of the Chicago Herald and Examiner, editor and manager of Chicago Inter Ocean, president of Marietta College |
| Chester Sanders Lord | Hamilton | editor of the New York Sun |
| Guy E. Shipler | | editor of The Churchman, writer for Business Week, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Time |
| Mansfield Tracy Walworth | Union | author |
| William Dwight Whitney | Williams | editor-in-chief of The Century Dictionary, linguist, philologist, lexicographer, and first president of the American Philological Association |

## Military

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| George Grenville Benedict | Vermont | American Civil War hero and Medal of Honor recipient |
| Daniel Butterfield | Union | Civil War general, composer of Taps bugle call, and Assistant Treasurer of the United States |
| John Cochrane | Union | Brigadier General in the Civil War, United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York |
| Henry Rathbone | Union | prominent in the U.S. Army, present in Lincoln's booth at Ford's Theatre; was stabbed tackling John Wilkes Booth |

## Politics

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Samuel W. Beall | Union | Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Sigma Phi Society founder |
| Henry E. Barbour | Union | U.S. Representative from California |
| Thomas Fielder Bowie | Princeton, Union | United States Congressman, founding member of Sigma Phi |
| William W. Campbell | Union | United States Congressman from New York |
| Clark B. Cochrane | Union | United States Congressman from New York |
| John Cochrane | Union | United States Congressman from New York, Attorney General of New York, and Brigadier General in the Civil War |
| Orasmus Cole | Union | United States Congressman from Wisconsin |
| Thomas Treadwell Davis | Hamilton | United States Congressman from New York |
| Ken Dryden | Cornell | Canadian Member of Parliament, former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame |
| Edwin Einstein | Union | United States Congressman from New York |
| Eugene Foss | Vermont | United States House of Representatives and served as a three-term governor of Massachusetts |
| A. Oakey Hall | New York | former Mayor of New York |
| John F. Hartranft | Union | former Governor of Pennsylvania |
| John T. Hoffman | Union | former Governor of New York |
| John James Ingalls | Williams | United States Senator from Kansas |
| Samuel Knox | Williams | United States Congressman from Missouri |
| Addison H. Laflin | Williams | United States Congressman from New York |
| Truman A. Merriman | Hobart | United States Congressman from New York |
| Joseph Mullin | Union | United States Congressman from New York, justice of the New York Supreme Court |
| Abram B. Olin | Williams | United States Congressman from New York and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia |
| Andrew Oliver | Union | United States Congressman from New York |
| Elihu Root | Hamilton | Canadian Member of Parliament, U.S. Secretary of War, U.S. Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
| Charles B. Sedgwick | Hamilton | United States Congressman from New York |
| James S. Sherman | Hamilton | Vice President of the United States and United States Congressman from New York |
| Gilbert Carlton Walker | Williams | Governor of Virginia, United States Congressman from Virginia |
| Earl Warren | California | Chief Justice of the United States, Governor of California |

## Religion

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| George William Knox | Hamilton | Missionary in Japan, author, and theologian |
| Oren Root II | Hamilton | theologian, Presbyterian minister, college professor |
| William A. Shanklin | Hamilton | Methodist minister and university president |
| M. Woolsey Stryker | Hamilton | Presbyterian minister and president of Hamilton College |
| George Worthington | Hobart | second bishop of Nebraska in the Episcopal Church |

## Science and medicine

| Name | Chapter | Notability | References |
| Lewis Sayre | New York | leading American orthopedic surgeon of the 19th century and president of the American Medical Association | |

## Sports

| Name | Chapter | Notability |
| Ken Dryden | Cornell | former professional hockey player, Hockey Hall of Fame, Canadian Member of Parliament |
| Larry Tanenbaum | Cornell | chairman of MLSE, owner of the Toronto Raptors and Toronto Maple Leafs |
| Ward Wettlaufer | Hamilton | amateur golfer |